
Gudrun Burnet
Former CEO, Standing Together
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If you are unable to attend and would prefer to postpone, we may be able to offer you a place on another course that takes place within 12 months from the original date.
If you cancel your booking the following charges will apply:
Time of cancellation |
Refund |
More than 14 days |
Full, minus 10% administration fee |
7 to 14 days |
50% refund |
Less than 7 days |
No refund |
Non-Attendance |
No Refund |
For any of the above changes, please contact us
Please note that we operate a different cancellation policy for bookings made by organisations for their staff team.
The cancellation policy applies to both online and in-room courses.
If, due to not having the minimum number of learners required to deliver the course, we will postpone and reschedule the course to a later date within a 12-month period. We will notify learners at least 14 days in advance of the course delivery date.
If, for unforeseen circumstances there may be a need to cancel and this is not rescheduled, the individual booking onto the course will be offered a full refund.
DAHA is a partnership between Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA), Gentoo and Peabody Housing Associations. Our Partnership Board includes:
DAHA was founded in 2014, by a group of ground-breaking women, intent of revolutionising the housing sector’s response to domestic abuse as a part of the Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Abuse.
Former CEO, Standing Together
Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Home Office
Director of Business Development & Insights, Advance
Managing Director, Addressing Domestic Abuse.
Before joining Standing Together as CEO, Guddy worked at Peabody Housing Association for nearly 11 years, first as Community Safety Manager, then as a Senior Business Partner for Domestic Abuse.
Guddy has trained over 43 Housing Providers nationally and is the housing representative for the National Violence Against Women’s and Girls stakeholder panel hosted by the Home Office.
She has spoken at International conferences in Czechoslovakia, Brighton, Belfast, Taiwan and the Hague about her work in housing and domestic abuse. She is a trustee of AVA and a 2016 Winston Churchill Fellow and was shortlisted for Red Magazine's Pioneering Woman of the year Award 2016.
Nicole became the UK's first Designate Commissioner for Domestic Abuse in 2019, ending her 5 year term as CEO of Standing Together.
In 1997, she came to London and helped set up ADVANCE, one of the first IDVA services in the UK.
In 2000, she began working at Standing Together to expand the CCR approach into health settings. After returning to the UK following two years at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University, she worked for SafeLives, Refuge and her own freelance business before returning to Standing Together.
Meghan is a certified IDVA and managed a frontline service in West London before becoming the Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Coordinator for Kensington & Chelsea. Meghan then worked for Standing Together where she was the Housing Services Coordinator, chaired DHRs and published Turning Points, which examines the impact of a coordinated community response on survivors of domestic abuse. During this time, Meghan co-founded the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance.
From 2013-2015, Meghan worked for Kensington &Chelsea Council as the European Communities Against Trafficking (ECAT) Project Manager and the Tri-Borough VAWG Transformation Lead. From 2015-2017, she was the Tri-Borough VAWG Strategic Lead, where she acted as lead commissioner, strategist and partnership director.
Currently, Meghan is an independent collaboration consultant, working with a number of strategic partnerships, local authorities and charitable consortiums to improve their approach to ending violence against women and girls via a Coordinated Community Response. Meghan has BAs in Spanish and Philosophy and an MA in Gender and Cultural Studies.
Kelly is Managing Director of social enterprise, Addressing Domestic Abuse. She has a wide range of housing experience including Director of Housing (interim), asylum support, managing a local authority Supporting People Programme and roles in housing policy and research.
A chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, Kelly holds a Masters’ degree in Housing Policy and Management and a PhD from Durham University on ‘The role of housing in a co-ordinated community response to domestic abuse’. After co-founding DAHA, Kelly worked with a national property repairs organisation to embed recognition of domestic abuse into the daily work of trade operatives and continues to work with property companies to support and train them to recognise domestic abuse via repairs.
Kelly was named 24 Housing’s ‘Housing Professional of the Year’ for her work and research on housing and domestic abuse and named in the top 20 women leaders in Housing in 2020. That same year she co-authored Housing and Domestic Abuse – Policy into Practice (Routledge).
Kelly is an honorary research fellow at Durham University, currently working on Government funded research on perpetrator interventions. She previously led a Home Office funded multi police force project, Domestic Abuse: A Whole Systems Approach which included overseeing research into the provision of a national response to perpetrators of domestic abuse. Kelly is a judge in the 2022 UK Housing Awards, a non-Executive Director of Believe Housing, and a trustee of the Alice Ruggles Trust.
At DAHA, we have a team of brilliant and dedicated women, who bring a wealth of experience from across the housing and domestic abuse sectors, to support housing providers develop an effective response to domestic abuse
Senior Housing Manager
DAHA Programme Manager
DAHA Regional Lead for the South of England
DAHA Regional Lead for East Anglia
DAHA Regional Lead for Midlands & the North of England
DAHA Regional Lead for London
Housing & DA Training Lead
Training & Membership Coordinator
The role of the Senior Housing Manager is to support the whole of the housing team to work together to deliver a collaborative and coordinated housing response together and with the wider Standing Together team. Deidre oversees the development, delivery, and funding/sustainability of the housing team.
Deidre reports to Guddy Burnet (CEO,) and directly line manages Louisa Steele, the Housing First and Homelessness Programme Manager, Saranya Kogulathas, the Whole Housing Approach Programme Manager and Judith Vickress, the DAHA Programme Manager. Each of these three managers, then directly oversee the work of each of these teams.
Judith oversees the work of the DAHA team as well as the development of the wider project. Judith also line manages the DAHA Team.
Judith leads on the following DAHA strands:
Freya supports all DAHA Members to adopt and embed standards of good practice around domestic abuse and achieve accreditation across the South and Southwest of England. Freya also leads the DAHA Regional Groups for the SW and (currently) the SE.
Freya is currently working with Surrey County Council to and producing local reports from across Surrey which focuses on their current response to domestic abuse.
Freya also assesses providers going for accreditation across the country and produces the assessment report.
Sharon supports providers going through DAHA accreditation and to adopt and embed standards of good practice around domestic abuse and achieve accreditation across East of England. Sharon also leads the DAHA Regional Groups for the East.
Sharon also assesses providers going for accreditation across the country and produces the assessment report.
Maja supports providers going through DAHA accreditation and DAHA Members to adopt and embed standards of good practice around domestic abuse and achieve accreditation across the midlands and North of England. This post also leads the DAHA Regional Groups for the Midlands and the North of England.
Jessica supports providers going through DAHA accreditation and DAHA Members to adopt and embed standards of good practice around domestic abuse and achieve accreditation across London and the Southeast of England. This post also leads the DAHA Regional Groups for London and parts of Southeast London.
Until April 2022 this post provides quarterly reporting and monitoring to London Councils, who currently fund this role. This includes supporting providers in the 32 boroughs of London plus the City of London as well as meeting funder outcomes gained through quarterly webinars for housing providers.
Emily currently sits within the DAHA team as her training work will mainly be focused on the DAHA training programmes for the first year of her role.
She will be leading the development and the delivery of DAHA training, and support the development and delivery of wider housing team training for housing providers, local authorities and specialist domestic abuse services. Emily will work closely alongside Eilise.
Eilise supports the DAHA team and Standing Together as whole on the following areas:
Eilise is the main point of contact for DAHA enquiries coming though and supports the DAHA and wider housing team with team meetings, strategies and ensures everything runs as smoothly as possible.
Eilise also supports the wider Standing Together CCR Network through coordinating this and enhancing materials and resources.
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